Dainty and colorful, Cicely is pleasant to be around but perhaps an odd sight at the military academy. Her bright red hair is often tied back with ribbon, exposing her endearing smile and wide, green eyes. Despite lacking fancy jewelry or clothing, her well-managed appearance and delicate features make it possible to mistake her for a lesser noble thanks to her non-standard red uniform. In combat, she dons comfortable leather armor that’s easy to move in, having no formal training in armor or weapons. Mostly as an emotional crutch, she often carries her father’s dagger, the one thing he left her, not knowing it was stolen to begin with.

Personality

Personality - Highly driven to always do her best and help others, Cicely has a generally optimistic outlook on life. She comes off as being quite comfortable with herself, not struggling with issues of self-confidence but rather acknowledging her strengths and weaknesses matter-of-factly. While she isn’t entirely consciously aware of it, she can be arrogant and self-centered, despite (or perhaps because of) her high self esteem and perceived humility. Though she can be reclusive and single-minded when focused on her studies, she’s willing to snap out of it for a friend in need. Cicely has a nasty habit of biting off more than she can chew, sometimes even literally. Often failing to recognise her own weaknesses, her fellow townsfolk would often catch her comically overburdened by heavy objects or struggling to reach something on a high shelf. Cicely will rarely turn down someone who appears to be in genuine need, and this can come back to bite her.
Coming from a small, close-knit community, Cicely’s idealistic view of the world and politics can betray her naivety. Believing people are good-natured, Cicely trusts that even misguided individuals are ultimately trying to do what they believe is good. She strongly supports the nobility despite her life as a commoner, believing that a man only responsible for himself and his family can’t be expected to consider the needs of a stranger; no matter how good their intentions. Typically though, she won’t delve into politics unsolicited, as she’d rather concentrate on objective topics. Overall, she is largely interested in modernization, and is mostly supportive of the recent changes going on in the empire. Many of the new policies being adapted by the empire leave her conflicted, as she knows they could destabilize the nobility and, by extension, the empire as a whole. Though she’d only ever admit it to someone she trusted, Cicely believes that she is the illegitimate daughter of a noble, and that her father’s dagger is a clue to finding her true home. In reality, though, her father was a notorious thief, and the dagger was stolen many years before she was born.
Cicely has never been in a real fight before, and has some trepidations about the taking of another’s life. She’s mainly focused on ways to incapacitate her foes without serious injury, or ways to support her allies, as a result. She has no experience dealing with personal loss, either, despite having consoled more than a few grieving friends back home. She can be quite protective of people she cares about, even if it’s beyond her means to defend them. Lacking the physical excellence of many Thors students, Cicely does her best to make up for it with rigorous study of tactics and orbal technology.

Background

Born in the town of Kyrkeby, Cicely never met her father, and her mother passed away in childbirth. All she knew of her father was that he had been a student at Thors who met Cicely’s mother on his last year of school trip. Fortunately, she was taken in by the church and given a chance to learn and prosper. She immersed herself in studies from an early age, taking advantage of the respectable libraries in town. Despite being a bookworm, she got along great with most of the townsfolk, and did her best to help those in need. Cooking and doing chores for the elderly, teaching other kids to read and write, offering a shoulder to cry on in times of loss. She gained a reputation for being helpful and kind, often helping kids around the village sort out their differences. While most of her free time was spent studying, some would go to writing her own short stories, and a couple were even published under her pen name; Xavier Langston. Using the earnings she’d managed to scrape together and her impressive track record around town, Cicely was able to do something nobody ever expected her to even try, nevermind succeed at. Wanting to learn more about her father, she applied to Thors.

Family and friends

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Walter Kendall and Lorena Hagel are Cicely’s parents, but she knows neither their names or where they are from. Walter was supposedly minor noble and a senior at Thors and her mother was supposedly a farm girl who eloped with him after they fell in love. The truth, though, was that both of her parents were dangerous criminals running away to raise their child away from their past mistakes. When Lorena died in childbirth, Walter was destroyed. He’d leave the girl in the hands of the church and go back to his life of organized crime.

Nathaniel Chancey is a middle-aged, balding priest residing in the township of Kyrkeby. Stern but kind, he’s like a father to Cicely and they care a great deal for eachother. Nathaniel got her started on her education, until the point that Cicely ran away with things, self-educating on anything that caught her interest. Nathaniel is likely the only person who knows the truth of Cicely’s parents.

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